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Many exciting concerts are coming up in the New
Year. Get your tickets for the best seats today!
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet Plays Ravel
Thursday, January 9, at 1:30 pm | New Jersey
Performing Arts Center in Newark
Friday, January 10, at 8 pm | Richardson Auditorium in Princeton
Saturday, January 11, at 8 pm | New Jersey Performing Arts Center in
Newark
Sunday, January 12, at 3 pm | State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick
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A lightning-fast touch
and richly expressive insights have made pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet
internationally famous, and Ravel’s jazz-age Concerto, bursting with
blues and heartbreaking melody, is Thibaudet’s signature piece. In
his New Jersey Symphony debut, exciting young star Kevin John Edusei
conducts this program, featuring Sibelius’ virtuosic Second Symphony!
Kevin John Edusei conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano
New Jersey Symphony
Donghoon Shin Of Rats and Men
Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2
Classical Conversation
Thursday, January 9, at 12:30 pm at New
Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark
Friday, January 10, at 7 pm at Richardson Auditorium in Princeton
Sunday, January 12, at 2 pm at State Theatre New Jersey in New
Brunswick
Enjoy a lively Classical Conversation before the performance. Learn
more about the music from New Jersey Symphony musicians, guest
artists and other engaging insiders.
Jean-Yves
Thidaudet’s appearance is dedicated to the memory of Stanlee and
Florence Kissel.
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2025 Lunar New Year Celebration with Xian
Zhang
Saturday, January 25, at 7:30 pm | New Jersey
Performing Arts Center in Newark
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Join us for this evening
of community and cultural exchange that is wonderful for families and
children, as we celebrate the Year of the Snake. Music Director Xian
Zhang, pianist Min Kwon, the Peking University Alumni Chorus, the
Starry Arts Children’s Chorus, and the Edison Chinese School Lion
Dance Team all return for this joyous concert–plus a special
appearance by opera star Michael Fabiano! Revel in Xian’s signature
blend of East and West in this celebratory performance, including
favorites like Spring
Festival Overture and "The Red Dragonfly"
alongside selections from Puccini’s most beloved operas.
Xian Zhang conductor
Min Kwon piano
Michael Fabiano tenor
Peking University Alumni Chorus
Starry Arts Children’s Chorus |
Rebecca Shen, director
Edison Chinese School Lion Dance Team
New Jersey Symphony
Li Huanzhi Spring Festival
Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Selections from Piano Concerto No. 23
Traditional / arr. Patricio Molina
Arirang
Traditional "Yuan Ri"
Traditional / arr. Nicholas Hersh
"The Red Dragonfly"
Giacomo Puccini "E Lucevan
le stelle" from Tosca
Giacomo Puccini Selections from Turandot
Cultural Exchange
Festival
Saturday, January 25 – Gates open at 6 pm
Come early to experience the pre-concert Cultural Exchange Festival
in the Prudential Hall Lobby, which this year features artisans and
performers from Prince Kung’s Palace Museum in Beijing.
Lunar New Year
Celebration VIP Event
Saturday, January 25, at 5:30 pm
Celebrate the Year of the Snake with your New Jersey Symphony at the
Lunar New Year Celebration VIP Event. The event continues a
tradition, started by Music Director Xian Zhang, that celebrates
community and cultural exchange. Guests will enjoy early access to
the Cultural Exchange Festival, a VIP reception and Celebration
Concert featuring Zhang, guest performers and the New Jersey Symphony.
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Holst’s The Planets—An HD Odyssey
Thursday, January 30, at 7:30 pm | State Theatre New Jersey in New
Brunswick
Friday, January 31, at 8 pm | New Jersey Performing Arts Center in
Newark
Saturday, February 1, at 8 pm | New Jersey Performing Arts Center in
Newark
Sunday, February 2, at 3 pm | Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown
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Stunning HD images from
decades of NASA exploration accompany Holst’s celestial orchestral
suite, The Planets.
Paired with a love song to the beauties of bird and sky, Vaughan
Williams’ The Lark
Ascending, you will have a whole new experience of the
word "awesome."
Xian Zhang conductor
Nancy Zhou violin
Montclair State University Prima Voce
| Heather J. Buchanan, director
New Jersey Symphony
Caroline Shaw The Observatory
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Gustav Holst The Planets—An
HD Odyssey
Next Gen cocktail hour
Friday, January 31, at 6:30 pm at Newark Local Beer in Newark
Join your fellow Next Gen members for a fun cocktail hour
before the performance at Newark Local Beer, including free
appetizers and a meet-and-greet with New Jersey Symphony musicians.
Classical
Conversation
Saturday,
February 1, at 7 pm at New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark
and Sunday, February 2, at 2 pm at Mayo Performing Arts Center in
Morristown
Enjoy a lively Classical Conversation before the performance. Learn
more about the music from New Jersey Symphony musicians, guest
artists and other engaging insiders.
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Warner Bros. Discovery presents Bugs Bunny at the
Symphony
Friday, February 14, at 8 pm | Count Basie
Center for the Arts in Red Bank
Saturday, February 15, at 8 pm | New Jersey Performing Arts Center in
Newark
Sunday, February 16, at 3 pm | State Theatre New Jersey in New
Brunswick
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Bugs
Bunny at the Symphony is back!
Celebrate Looney Tunes and its legendary
stars, including Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, Wile E. Coyote,
Road Runner and of course Bugs Bunny, our very favorite
"wascally wabbit." Enjoy classics including "Baton
Bunny," "The Rabbit of Seville" and "What’s
Opera, Doc?" alongside Warner Bros. Discovery 3D theatrical
shorts "Rabid Rider," "Coyote Falls" and
"Fur of Flying." Don’t miss these extraordinary musical
scores performed live by the New Jersey Symphony as all the action
unfolds on the big screen.
George
Daugherty
conductor
George Daugherty & David Ka Lik Wong
creators
New Jersey Symphony
More information on the program is available at www.bugsbunnyatthesymphony.net.
LOONEY TUNES and all related characters and
elements © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s24) The February
16 performance is presented in collaboration with State Theatre New
Jersey.
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Brahms and Chopin
Thursday, February 20, at 1:30 pm | New
Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark
Saturday, February 22, at 8 pm | Count Basie Center for the Arts in
Red Bank
Sunday, February 23, at 3 pm | State Theatre New Jersey in New
Brunswick
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Compelling new voices and the pleasure of
dear friends. Christoph König is a cherished, frequent guest on the
New Jersey Symphony’s podium, a master especially of classics like
Chopin’s tune-filled Concerto No. 1 and Brahms’ dramatic First
Symphony. We’re also thrilled to introduce you to Allison
Loggins-Hull, the New Jersey Symphony’s new Resident Artistic
Partner—a role created to innovate and inspire.
Christoph König conductor
Tony Siqi Yun piano
New Jersey Symphony
Allison Loggins-Hull Can You See?
Frédéric Chopin Piano Concerto
No. 1
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1
Classical
Conversation
Sunday,
February 23, at 2 pm at State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick
Enjoy a lively Classical Conversation before the performance. Learn
more about the music from New Jersey Symphony musicians, guest
artists and other engaging insiders.
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The Firebird with
Xian Zhang
Friday, March 7, at 8 pm | New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark
Saturday, March 8, at 8 pm | Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red
Bank
Sunday, March 9, at 3 pm | New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark
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You may be lifted out of
your seat as the final pages of Stravinsky’s landmark ballet, The Firebird,
light up the hall in phosphorescent musical color. The only way to
top that is by adding the talents of our special guests, the
award-winning Jersey City company, Nimbus Dance, who join us to
premiere two newly choreographed works.
Xian Zhang conductor
Jonathan Spitz cello
Nimbus Dance | Samuel Pott,
artistic director & choreographer
New Jersey Symphony
Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude
from Cello Suite No. 2
Caroline Shaw Valencia
Qasim Naqvi God Docks at Death
Harbor (Piano Quintet Version)
Igor Stravinsky Divertimento from
The Fairy’s Kiss
Igor Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird
Classical
Conversation
Friday,
March 7, at 7 pm and Sunday, March 9, at 2 pm at New Jersey
Performing Arts Center in Newark
Enjoy a lively Classical Conversation before the performance. Learn
more about the music from New Jersey Symphony musicians, guest
artists and other engaging insiders.
Concert
prelude
Saturday,
March 8, at 7 pm at Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank
See the New Jersey Symphony Youth Orchestra’s outstanding Academy
Wind Quintet deliver a special pre-concert performance.
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Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2
Thursday, March 13 at 1:30 pm | New Jersey
Performing Arts Center in Newark
Friday, March 14 at 8 pm | Richardson Auditorium in Princeton
Saturday, March 15 at 8 pm | New Jersey Performing Arts Center in
Newark
Sunday, March 16 at 3 pm | Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown
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Rachmaninoff’s Second
Symphony, filled with dark-chocolate harmonies, has been seducing
newcomers to classical music for a century. No wonder its melodies
have also cropped up in movies and pop songs. In Nico Muhly’s new
piano concerto, Sounding,
melodies inspired by hymn tunes are also abundant. Here is
edge-of-your-seat beauty, topped off by the timelessness of Debussy’s
musical portrait of moonlight.
Xian Zhang conductor
Gregory D. McDaniel conductor
Adam Tendler piano
New Jersey Symphony
Claude Debussy Clair de Lune
Nico Muhly Sounding
for Piano and Orchestra (New Jersey Symphony Co-Commission)
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No.
2
Relaxed Performance
Thursday, March 13, at New Jersey Performing
Arts Center in Newark
The Thursday matinee will be a Relaxed Performance, designed to
accommodate the differing needs of our patrons. We encourage you to
bring your own sensory manipulatives, noise reduction headphones and
other tools that will allow you to react and enjoy the music in a way
that is most natural for you! More information on the resources we
will have in place pre-concert and during the performance is
available below.
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Classical
Conversation
Friday,
March 14, at 7 pm at Richardson Auditorium in Princeton and Sunday,
March 16, at 2 pm at Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown
Enjoy a lively Classical Conversation before the performance. Learn
more about the music from New Jersey Symphony musicians, guest
artists and other engaging insiders.
Concert
prelude
Saturday,
March 15, at 7 pm at New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark
Hear an inspiring pre-concert performance by the New Jersey Symphony
Youth Orchestra’s Curtland E. Fields Ensemble.
Gregory D. McDaniel is
the 2024–25 Colton Conducting Fellow, made possible by the generous
support of Judy and Stewart Colton.
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Support your New Jersey Symphony
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The New Jersey Symphony will begin
the New Year with the winter portion of its 2024–25 season, and it
includes a slew of must-see performances you do not want to miss. We
hope that you can join us to start the New Year as we feature
performances from new and returning guest artists, a cultural
celebration of the Lunar New Year and the wacky and cartoonish
pyrotechnics of Bugs Bunny at the Symphony.
Your contribution allows us to present you with the exciting lineup
of performances we have for you to start the New Year. Learn more at njsymphony.org/support.
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